Core • Learning Phase

A cozy slice of life adventure with gallows humor and a twisted imagination.  The day was supposed to end like any other: a shirt ruined by a coffee stain, my bosses lecturing me about due diligence, and a badly needed drink to cure the Monday blues.So why did I end up in a faux-world with cleverly defined rules no one bothered to write down?And why, prey tell, am I being told I'm enrolled in a human experiment that could decide the fate of the planet?The drink wasn't strong enough for this.I'm in a fully integrated virtual-reality system where I’m expected to “level up” stats—whatever that means—battle bizarre monsters designed by someone with a seriously twisted sense of humor, and win challenges.There’s a catch, of course.If we die in here, we die for real. No respawns.And if we kill in here?No consequences.We’re trapped in a trial of human nature, one meant to test how far we’ll go when the rules don’t apply. To save the world, we’ll have to prove there’s still something human left in us... even as the fight to survive tries to strip it all away.New chapters are posted every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday.